Arts
The goal of the fine arts curriculum is to provide
opportunities for all elementary students to participate in music and art and
to develop and refine their skills as they mature. Students in grades K-6
receive a sequential program of instruction in music, which includes basic
concepts, listening and performance skills, and appreciation. All K-6 students
have music class twice a week. Students who wish to play an instrument may
participate in band beginning in grade 5.
The art curriculum in grades K-6 includes instruction in the
visual art disciplines of art production, art criticism, and aesthetics. The
program is sequential and comprehensive in the experiences offered to students.
All K-6 students have Art class two periods a week.
Physical Education
Physical education provides students with opportunities to
learn motor skills, develop fitness, and gain understanding about the
importance of physical activity and healthy bodies. Students are provided a
developmentally appropriate and personally challenging instructional program
that advances the knowledge, confidence, skills, and motivation needed to
engage in a lifelong, healthy, active lifestyle.
Students in grades K-1 have PE class every day, grades 2-4
have PE class four times a week, and grades 5-6 have PE class twice a week.
All elementary students have two twenty minute recesses each
day. Recess allows students the time for unstructured play.
Foreign Language
Spanish language instruction is proficiency-oriented with the
teacher placing greater emphasis on meaningful communication than grammatical
structure. Teacher and students use the target language as much as possible
with the goal of student’s first understanding and then producing in the
language. The curriculum has a spiral design, so that greater detail, rigor,
and breadth are added to similar themes of study each subsequent school year.
Students in grades 2-6 have Spanish Language class twice each week.
Technology
Elementary students engage in curriculum-related computer
activities designed by their classroom teacher, the computer supervisor, and/or
the technology coordinator. Students become engaged in a number of
developmentally appropriate computer activities. Computers are used for
problem-solving activities, creating simple publishing projects, remedial math
and reading software programs or apps, and slide-show presentations. Examples
of programs include PBS Kids, National Geographic For Kids, Discovery
Education, and Math Playground. All K-6 students have computer class four
periods each week.
Bancroft-Rosalie Elementary School uses the Net Smartz Kids
curriculum to educate students on how to avoid dangerous, inappropriate, or
unlawful online behavior. Typing Web.com is the program used for keyboarding
instruction.
There are seven IPads for student use in each elementary
classroom. The after school program has ten IPads for students. The classroom
teachers have access to the computer lab for writing projects. Upper elementary students use Google
Drive to store their assignments.
Career Guidance
The Career Guidance program addresses student development in
academic achievement, career development, and personal and social skills. The
school counselor supports students in experiencing school success. The
counselor works with students individually, in small groups, and in the
classrooms. Each classroom receives developmental school
counseling lessons during the course of the school year. The counselor
helps students develop coping skills, solve problems, learn study skills, and
build friendships. All students in grades K-6 have Career Guidance class once
each week.
Library/Media
The goal of the Bancroft-Rosalie
Elementary School library program is to provide our students, staff, and
community with outstanding resources that will enable each to flourish in their
lifelong education. As supporting the curriculum and student needs is the main
purpose of the school library, the library provides a current,
cross-curricular, cross-cultural collection of text and non-text resources,
which reflects the school community. To best support the student curricular
needs, books and materials represent all literacy levels and are arranged
according to readability levels.
Students have access to
interactive web-based multi-media digital resources such as the World Book web
site, which offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, and study
aids. Over 1,000 high interest e-library books are available for student
checkout through a school cooperative administered by Educational Service Unit
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